When her bows went down the shining swell broke with a dull roar and rainbows flickered in the spray about her forecastle; then, while the long deck got level, one heard the beat of engines and the grinding of screws.

They heard the beating of drums.

One day a team did not work to suit him, and he gave the horses a cruel beating.

His breath got hard and he felt his heart beat.

He passed his cool hands over my brow, and felt the beating of my heart.

The men had put him in a box stall, and had done all they could, but his eyes were rolling, and his heart missed every fourth beat.

Her eyes were lifted to his, and they shone with the love that was coursing through her veins, almost stopping the beating of her heart.

But the traditional historian tells us, he was the only one who was punished therefor; so, while we blame him, let us shed a tear of sympathy because he alone got the beating, the others the eating.

Yet, at times, the Master-Word would answer to us, beating steadily in the night; and when we questioned afresh, we knew that they in the Lesser Redoubt had caught the beat of the Master-Word, and so made reply; though it had not been they who had made the previous talk, which we had sought to test by the Word.

When the terrible and heart-rending news was received that an assassin's bullet had ended the life of the greatest of all presidents the effect was so paralyzing that hearts almost ceased beating.

Sadly we march along the crowded street, While trumpets hoarsely blare and drums tempestuous beat.

Only once in his life could he remember having received a beating like that which Thorpe inflicted upon him now.

We resume the beat.

Her heart gave a little beat.

All along the coast, from Maine to Florida, along the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific, these men patrol the beach as a policeman walks his beat.

When she was near the top, her mother's voice, at once querulous and amiable, came from the sitting-room: "Where are you going to?" There was a pause, dramatic for both of them, and in that minute pause the very life of the house seemed for an instant to be suspended, and then the waves of the hostile love that united these two women resumed their beating, and Hilda's lips hardened.

The sentry in front was no longer pacing his beat, and there was no sign of the man in the rear.

" Helen's heart skipped a beat.

Donnegan looked up to Lord Nick; but still he kept the beat of the music.

But she had faded, day by day, Growing more mild, and pure, and sweet, As nearer to her ear there came A distant sea's mysterious beat, Till now this summer afternoon, Its waters touched her feet.

Her skin is so transparent that one can almost count her heart-beats by the flushes they send into her cheeks.

Ticktickticktick He counted the beating of his watch up to twenty.

Her own being made so much sound, so much commotion, that it seemed to her she could not hear anything save those beatings and pulsings.

Sweet lady, I beseech you mussell your beagle; I dare not trust my selfe with his folly, and he may deserve more beating then I am willing to bestow at this tyme.

But, in the meantime, he would learn something of the real issues of men and women as they live in great cities, so that he could write a play which would be so true, so vital, that it would be like watching the beating of the hot heart of life.